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NOW: Movies from hard disk WAS: VFD Questions


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: NOW: Movies from hard disk WAS: VFD Questions
  • From: "mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 09:52:02 -0000
  • Mailing-list: list ukha_d@xxxxxxx; contact ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Phil,

What software are you using for extraction, serving and playback?

Are you able to playback the full Dolby Digital / DTS sound track?

I'm very interested....

Don't worry about HDD space - time will fix that :-)

Regards,

Mark

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@a...> wrote:
>
> I've been looking at just extracting the entire DVD to hard disc and
> playing it from there off the network - this would also have the
> advantage that I would be - in theory at least - able to play
> different movies in different rooms simultaneously.
>
> So far I've been able to replay back *4* different movies at the
> same time from a pretty low spec server (PII 450, 128Mb, 5,400rpm
> IDE drive, no RAID).
>
> The only problems at the moment are the lack of a nice front end for
> selecting the movie initially (I'm using RealMagic hardware decoder
> cards) and the obvious one of needing *HUGE* amounts of hard disc
> space - currently I think I'll need 2Tb or more!




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